Chapter 189: Ten Year Lease
The turning point came six years later, when the previous county magistrate's six-year term of office expired and he was ordered to be transferred to another place, and the new county magistrate took office.
Some merchants who want to change the location of their own business, or the lease of the shop has expired, turn their attention to Changqing Street in front of the yamen, and after six years of silence, it is finally beginning to return to its former bustle.
After discovering the changes on the street, Lu Abo also rekindled the hope of raising the rent of his own shop, his own shop has been rented to the Yu family for more than six years, and the prices in the county have not known how much they have risen, and even the price of the house shop has risen, but the Yu family is still using a rent much lower than the market price eight years ago, occupying their own good shop, and the rent is going to rise for everything.
I thought that this time the Yu family didn't have those high-sounding excuses, and the rent increase should be a matter of course, after all, now that there is no previous avoidance, there are more tenants, and it's the same if you directly change tenants at home.
But who would have thought that as soon as Lu Abo started talking about wanting to increase the rent, the Yu family immediately cried and complained that it was difficult to do business, and his own life was sad.
Lu Abo was so angry by the rogue behavior of the Yu family that he said on the spot that he would let the Yu family move out of their yard, and even if the shop was empty in the future, he would not rent it to them again.
The three members of the Yu family were not even willing to increase the rent, and they were willing to move out of such a cheap shop easily, so they immediately found the latest lease deed, and pulled Lu Abo to find the neighborhood theory. "The neighbors are all here to judge, this Lu family sees that my man is a cripple, so he bullies us and my mother, the lease of this shop has not expired, so they insist on driving our family out to sleep on the street, and there is no reason!"
Liu took his daughter Yu Ling to sit on the street in front of his shop, crying so heartbreakingly, Yu Fugui, the male owner of the Yu family, was a cripple, and at this time he also limped and dragged Lu Abo to the door, sat on the threshold with his buttocks, beating the leg that was not good for walking, cursing that he was incapable, and he had affected his wife and daughter, so it was better to die here.
In this situation, Lu Abo couldn't explain it even if he was reasonable, he was really tired of arguing with the Yu family, so he could only get rid of Yu Fugui's entanglement and avoid his own east courtyard first.
But as the saying goes, the clay man still has three points of temper, and the more he thought about it after Lu Abo went back, the more angry he became, and on the second day, he directly found his son-in-law, nephew, nephew, etc. to help him.
A group of people went directly into the shop in the West Courtyard and gave the Yu family an ultimatum, asking them to move out of the Lu family's shop as soon as the lease arrived this time, otherwise they would directly find someone to throw the three of them out, and it would be useless for his family to cry hoarsely.
The Yu family saw that Lu Abo seemed to be coming this time, and he was really thrown out of the shop, so he was a little jealous, and the next day he knocked on the door of the east courtyard with food and pastries, saying that everything was good to discuss, and he planned to continue to rent the Lu family's shop.
That night, the Yu family set up a good banquet in the shop in the west courtyard to entertain Lu Abo, not only solemnly apologized to Lu Abo on the spot, but also responded to the rent increase of the shop, and only begged the Lu family not to throw them out.
The Yu family's attitude was surprisingly good, and Lu Abor was also relieved, and the important things that had been in his mind for many years were finally resolved, and he drank a few more glasses that night, and he didn't even know when he got drunk.
I thought that the matter was so perfectly solved, just waiting for the half-year lease period to arrive, the two families will re-sign the lease, but who would have thought that the lease period is up but waiting left and right and waiting for the right and right can not wait for the family to find themselves to pay the money to re-sign, if you come to ask, just say that you are still busy at the moment, and wait for two more days.
Lu Abo could only lead someone to find the Yu family's shop again, and asked in front of a group of neighbors, "Yu family, do you still want to rent a shop?" If you don't rent it, move out of my shop quickly!"
Yu Fugui and his wife Liu stood on the inside of the counter of the shop, hugging their shoulders and looking at Lu Abo's face flushing, as if they were being questioned and watched at this time
It's not them in general.
"I said old man, I still want to ask you what kind of trouble is this, a while ago we obviously signed a lease deed to give the silver, and now you are looking for someone to make trouble, you want to play tricks, and you can't afford to blackmail me for a piece of silver!"
Lu Abo was so angry that his chest was tight and short of breath, and his hand pointing at Yu Fugui couldn't help but tremble: "You! You, you scoundrel! The first half of the year has already arrived, your family is either busy or has something to do, when will I sign the lease with you?"
Liu seemed to have suffered some great grievance, and shouted: "There is no royal law anymore, my family has obviously signed a lease deed and paid you ten years of rent, why are you coming to the door to make trouble again!"
Yu Fugui also took out a piece of paper full of words from the box under the counter, which was the signed lease deed of the two families: "Look! This is written in black and white, I have rented it for ten years at a time, and it has only been a few months, and your Lu family wants to turn around and break the contract!"
Chu Yi couldn't help but be a little puzzled when he listened to Lu Abo's narration, and directly interrupted and asked, "Since you didn't sign the lease deed, why didn't you report it to the official?"
Lu Abo sighed: "I reported it, I reported it to the official on the spot, but after comparing it with the yamen, he said that the handprint and handwriting were mine, but I obviously didn't sign it, and I didn't receive any money at home!" Since then, the Yu family has never paid rent, and has been occupying my shop. I really had no choice, and I just recently thought that I might just sell these two houses, so I went to find my nephew's friend."
The boss of the house, that is, the friend of Lu Abo's nephew, hurriedly explained: "Boss Chu, I definitely don't mean to cheat you, it's just that your request matches the Lu family's house, and the price is really cheap, I just thought that you and Ding Zhutou are friends, let's just invite Ding Zhutou over, and it is not a trivial matter to solve this matter?"
Then what kind of heart do the Yu family dare to play in front of Ding Zhutou, when you get a cheap and satisfactory shop, the Lu family can be regarded as solving a big problem, killing two birds with one stone, why don't we do it, isn't it?"
Chu Yi glanced at the boss of the shop coldly, and walked out with a step: "You better find someone else in this shop."
Seeing this, the boss of the bank hurriedly chased after Lu Abo: "Boss Chu, Boss Chu, listen to me, three hundred taels is in this part of the county, this shop is really the cheapest, and if you help the Lu family, aren't we doing a good deed?"
Seeing that Chu Yi was unmoved, the two of them stopped directly in front of the Lu family's courtyard and blocked the way: "Boss Chu, I saw it that day, Ding Zhutou's relationship with you must be unusual, you can do it, this matter is Ding Zhutou's words, as long as he comes to the door and takes the Yu family away, we can immediately sign the deed and go to the yamen to re-register, such a big cheap thing, just throw it away, don't you feel distressed?"
"If you stop me again, I'll tell Ding Zhutou that you tricked the two of us!"
Originally, he stopped Chu Yi and the others, but he hesitated again in an instant, especially the boss of the bank, he just wanted to do the elders of his friend's family a favor and make another profit by the way, but he didn't want to offend the head catcher in the county government because of this matter.
Seeing this, Chu Yi no longer paid attention to the entanglement between the two, pushed away the boss of the bank to stop his hand, and walked away.
Shen Luzhu listened to Chu Yi after returning home and learned about the Lu family and the Yu family, and couldn't help but sigh a little for a while: "When Brother Ding and we went to the line that day, I thought that God really helped, with Brother Ding on the side, the company didn't dare to fool us, but I didn't expect that there were still people who dared to hit Brother Ding with their ideas, fortunately, Chu Yi, you were not fooled, it seems that we have to change this line."
"Out of the Lu family, I went to find another house, the layout of the Lu family's house is really good, Uncle Azhu, you will like it when you see it, I have already told the people in the house about our needs, and asked them to help pay attention to similar patterns, but I don't know if I can find a similar one."
Shen Luzhu also liked Chu Yi very much after listening to it, but no matter how much he liked them, he didn't want to wade into this troubled water, so he immediately comforted Chu Yi and said, "It's okay, maybe there is a better one, besides, we want to buy it, since it is our own, it is not how we want to change it."
Third Uncle Chu also said, "That's right, Ayi, you did the right thing, this kind of thing has always been public
said that the public is reasonable, the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is reasonable, you can't just listen to the words of the Nalu family, who knows if there are other hidden secrets in it, or it is better not to mix. It's not that he reported to the government back then, since the government couldn't help him get back to his own shop, where do we have the ability to do something that the government can't do!"
Chu Yi nodded and responded: "The third uncle is right, they just want to borrow the power of Brother Ding, it doesn't matter if it's true or not, it doesn't matter to us, it's not important to us, we just want to buy a shop, there's no need to get involved."
Third Uncle Chu remembered another thing and asked, "Then do you need to talk to Ding Zhutou about this?"
Chu Yi did struggle with this matter on the way back: "I originally thought about whether I should tell Brother Ding a prophet, in case the Lu family finds him again after the incident, so that he can be prepared, but think about it, forget it, the boss of the bank and Lu Abor originally stopped me from leaving, but I was scared away when I said that I wanted to tell Brother Ding, I think you don't have the courage to find Brother Ding directly, don't bother Brother Ding if you have a big holiday."
Third Uncle Chu nodded: "Yes, the head catcher was originally kind to help, let's talk about this, it's not good."
There are two days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the little couple quickly put this matter behind, and the next day happily drove the ox cart, pulled the family to the town to buy, since the pregnancy, Shen Luzhu has not been to the town for a long time to visit shops and markets, now it is seven months old, the energy is better than before, I don't know how much, like going to the town for this kind of short journey, can take him with him.
At this time in the county town, the boss of the shop, who had only been rejected by Chu Yi, was pacing in his yard with anxiety, afraid that Chu Yi would sue him, but he didn't say anything about the deal, and he offended Ding Zhutou because of this.